LPM: Silly string question

[Frank Price]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Joe Hourcle wrote:

# On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lane wrote:
# 
# > i'm tempted to try to explain the general rule here
# > (something like "braces following a variable identifier
# > character mean treat what's inside the braces as either
# > a reference or a variable name"), but i'm not exactly
# > sure if that's exactly correct.  anyway, it works.
# 
# >From my understanding of it, you're basically just specifying braces, as
# they're generally implied to be from the identifier ($@%*&), to the
# wherever it could be (greedy matching)
# 
# Braces are also useful for setting wierd precidence, as I think the
# following should all give the contents of $width:
# 
# 	$width
# 
# 	${width}
# 
# 	$foo = 'width'; ${$foo}
#
# 	${&foo}; sub foo { return 'width'; }

These last two will only work if you don't have 'use strict' turned on,
or haven't selectively turned it off for symbolic references with "no
strict 'refs'".

-Frank.
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